April
28

bruce-heilman

May 2, 2016- The College of the Ozarks will host A Patriotic Tribute – A Solider’s Journey to welcome Dr. Bruce Heilman Monday, May 2, at 9:00 am. The public is welcome to attend and will take place at The Missouri Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Heilman will stop at the C of O on Monday  as part of a cross-country motorcycle tour to visit memorials throughout the U.S.

Dr. Heilman is 89 years old and served his Nation as a Marine in World War II in the South Pacific and Japan. He has covered more than 140 countries as he has escorted travel groups abroad annually for more than 30 years, and is a member of the Leathernecks Motorcycle Club International.

For more information please contact Valerie Coleman, public relations director, at 417-690-2212.

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April
26
Mike Sisco
siscoweb@yahoo.com
Branson Masonic Lodge #587 AF & AM
417-527-7852
100 Chiefs Court
Branson, MO   65616

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Branson, Missouri—May 7 2016 10 am-2 pm—With more than 215,000 children processed through the MoCHIP Child ID program in 9 years, MoCHIP is clearly a presence in the community and vows to remain so! Taking place Saturday May 7 from 10 am – 2 pm, the Missouri Masonic Family, Branson Masonic Lodge #587, will be on hand to further ensure the safety of area children FREE OF CHARGE. The event will be at the Boys and Girls Club on 1460 Bee Creek Road.

And the MoCHIP program works! No parent wants to believe that the unimaginable could happen to them, though nearly 2,000 children are reported missing or abducted in the United States each day. The peace of mind MoCHIP provides to Missouri families is invaluable. The program consists of five major components—digital photographs, digital fingerprints, vital child information and emergency contacts, a dental bite impression, and two laminated ID cards. The photographs, fingerprints, and child data are burned onto a mini-CD that is compatible with the AMBER ALERT system already in place. The dental impression provides a virtual diagram of the child’s biting surface, which, like fingerprints is unique to each individual, and further supplies enough saliva to provide a DNA sample that can also be used as scent source for trained canine search teams. Combined, this five-part process provides a dramatic, time sensitive recovery tool for authorities.

 Once the child is processed through the program, which generally takes only 15 minutes, the parent is armed with a single pre-printed envelope that instructs authorities in the event of an emergency, something a parent in crisis would undoubtedly have trouble with, and a proactive measure to combat the time sensitivity involved in recovery. Within a matter of minutes the MoCHIP CD can be loaded into a computer directly form a police officer’s automobile and entered into the Amber Alert system.

Girls AND boys ages 11 – 21 are statistically most susceptible to become missing and the “MoCHIP Packet,” that contains all the child’s vital information, has been tested 7 times that we know of, and resulted in all children—teenagers— being returned safely and promptly to their parents care.

On the day of the MoCHIP event, parents are urged to gather pertinent information such as doctor, dentist, and emergency contact and phone numbers, allergies, medications, and parent work, cell, and assorted phone numbers. Information Collection Forms and Permission slips can be downloaded from the mochip.org Web site (“about”) and filled out ahead of time. Height charts and scales are available at the event to facilitate the most current details regarding the child. As would be expected, security and privacy are of utmost importance. All information and specimens are collected on site, processed and provided to the parent or legal guardian in a yellow envelope. At the end of each event, databases are erased using state-of-the-art software. The only item retained by the Masonic Children’s Foundation is the signed permission slip. If you have any questions, call Mike Sisco, Event Coordinator at (417) 527-7852 or David Collignon at (417) 496-5908 or [email protected]. For more information on becoming a corporate partner or to make a donation, please contact State Coordinator Nick Cichielo: [email protected] or (636) 530-6069.
Sponsoring Masonic Lodge: Branson Masonic Lodge # 587
Event Date: May 7th
Event Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Event Location:
Boys and Girls Club
1460 Bee Creek Rd
Branson MO 65616

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